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Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011

Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences

David Ross, Publisher, STM

Caroline Porter, Publisher, HSS


SAGE and Open Access

● Predominately a Humanities and Social Science Publisher.

● Publishes on behalf of over 250 societies, associations and institutions globally.

● Independent, founder owned.


SAGE-Hindawi

● Partnership with Hindawi Publishing Corporation, based in Egypt.

● Launched a suite of OA titles in the medical and life sciences.

● Low cost experiment with minimal organisational impact.


SOAP Project● Study of Open Access Publishing.

● EC Funded FP7 study into attitudes to OA in the academic communities.

● Approximately 1 million questionnaires, received 38,358 responses.

● Provided some key insights to the HSS community.



SOAP Results

● ~80% of Social Scientists who published an OA article did so free of charge.

● ~10% of the remainder didn’t know.

● ~5% of the remainder paid less that €250.

● I.e. Only ~5% of SS OA authors had paid a commercially viable rate.






SAGE Open: Overview

● First broad-scale OA product tailored to the social sciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities.

● Constructive, methodology-based peer-review and continuous, rapid publication.

● New features enable the community to extend peer-review beyond acceptance.



SAGE Open: YTD Data● Peer-review launched January 1

• 668 submissions • 61 countries

● SJO site (www.sageopen.com) launched May 16 • 32 articles published to date

● 611 Facebook fans


Submissions by Month

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Top Countries SubmittingUnited States 188 30%

India 49 8%

Iran, Islamic Republic of 27 4%

Canada 23 4%

Pakistan 16 3%

United Kingdom 13 2%

Nigeria 11 2%

Portugal 10 2%


Top Subjects Submitted

Education 94

Psychology 78

Management 54

Sociology 52

Political Science 46

Communication 43

Economics 25

Humanities 24


Decision Statistics

Decision# of

Manuscripts % of Total

Accept 10 6.8%

Accept Pending Minor Revision

40 27.4%

Immediate Reject 20 13.8%

Major Revision 36 24.7%

Reject 40 27.4%


1The "Current issue TOC" count is not summed into the monthly total since that count is also included in the "All TOCs" count.2The Robot/Crawler counts are excluded from the Total counts. Produced: August 5, 2011 06:36

SAGE Open YTD Usage Summary

Access Events to May Jun Jul Aug Sep OctTotal YTD

Home Page 6,891 4,624 4,129 16,429 11,854 17,436 61,363

Current issue TOC 0 0 0 33 76 123 232

All TOCs 0 0 0 128 350 520 998

Searches 4,234 1,108 642 1,780 2,279 3,442 13,485

Abstracts 22,771 6,048 4,255 11,812 7,334 9,756 61,976

Full-text HTML 2,431 1,631 1,166 3,446 2,668 3,821 15,163

PDFs 10,516 1,644 1,315 3,106 2,405 3,273 22,259

Data Supplements 0 0 250 224 318 258 1,050

Powerpoint 36 83 47 72 38 86 362

Total1 46,879 15,138 11,804 36,997 27,246 38,592 176,656

Crawler/Robot2 919 1,420 1,729 2,476 1,196 1,601 9,341


Challenges/ Next Steps:

● Article editors

● Pricing

● Institutional support

● Work with Community to identify most effective way forward